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After several years of pestering my wife to get backyard chickens, she finally relented this past fall. I made all the traditional arguments
Friday. February 23rd, 2018The Vegetable Farm Manager at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, turning your garden into a four-season farm is easier than you think.
Tuesday. December 26th, 2017Researchers compared the number of parasites found on commercial chicken flocks with those found on backyard flocks. But which chicken was the itchiest?
Thursday. November 2nd, 2017Here’s something petroleum companies don’t want you to know: when things decompose, like the half rotten head of lettuce in the back of your refrigerator, fuel
Thursday. July 26th, 2018Passive surveillance project uncovered presence of certain worrisome pathogens in backyard raises concerns for poultry health specialists.
Wednesday. October 9th, 2019Poultry owners, whatever their size, should be able to house birds well no matter the circumstances. Poultry owners big and small in the U.K
Friday. January 13th, 2017Although hens typically prefer to lay eggs in nests, it is not unusual for some eggs to be laid on the floor of the hen house or on the ground.
Friday. June 8th, 2018The large-scale hatcheries that supply fingerlings for recreational fishing in rivers and lakes may not be of much help either.
Friday. September 8th, 2017Fish farming has a poor reputation: antibiotic-dependent, polluting, and reliant on industrially produced corn and soybeans to fatten the fish
Friday. September 8th, 2017Lemongrass can be grown in backyards, pots, on terrace as this works as an excellent insect repellent.
Friday. June 9th, 2017